Author: corks&pads
Date: 2006-02-04 13:52
I'm an entry-level clarinet repair tech, but my background includes historic preservation and restoration. While starting an overhaul on a Buffet MM, a thought came to me and I wanted to see how others feel about this.
It seems to be standard practice to polish all of the metal on an instrument during an overhaul. I'm sure that most commercial customers love seeing the things coming back to them all shiny and sparkling, but is that really best for the instrument? Once the accumulated crud was gently removed from this B/MM, the metal had a pleasant patina. It looks more like a stately lady than a painted hussy.
Should nice older instruments be made to show that they wear their age well, or should we be trying to make them look like new again? Fifty years from now, will clarinet specialists look at our instruments and wonder what we were thinking as we buffed the metalwork to a high shine (while removing some amount of its original material)?
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